England camp itching to bounce back

The English camp is itching to bounce back after a heavy loss to hosts India in the 2nd ODI at Rajkot. Assistant coach Richard Halsall revealed that there is frustration in the camp in the way the game drifted. "It was a heavy defeat and the lads were disappointed they didn't deliver," he said.

England were strongly placed at one point of time, after dismissing the openers cheaply. Halsall felt that the team regretted the lost opportunity. "At one stage they were 119 for four, a great opportunity, and even when they made 285 we got to 60 for one after 10 overs and were thinking 'we are going to win this'. The disappointment is that we created two very good opportunities to win a game of cricket in India, which is very hard to do, and we didn't take them. We didn't hit some of the targets we would hope to, but we have to try and be as objective as possible and take the emotion out of it," added Halsall.

Despite the defeat, Halsall reiterated that the side was raring to go and would put their best foot forward in the 3rd ODI, to be played at India skipper MS Dhoni's home-town, Ranchi. "India is an emotional place (to play cricket) but we have to move forward, provide consistency and go back to our fundamentals," quoted Halsall.